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Post by Rob Allen on Jul 26, 2024 10:51:36 GMT -5
My first, and perhaps the most serious in a way, is the one Ive mentioned in passing many times before: getting out of comics three or four years in the early 70s - I can pin down exactly when I started reading and buying again (the spring or early summer of 1975) but stopping was a more gradual tapering off. So I missed a lot of great stuff, including some of what are now my favourite comics. I had a very similar experience with my two-year hiatus. I stopped buying comics in May or June of 1969 and started back in February 1971. At first I continued my Marvel Zombie ways, then branched out to DC's Burroughs books, then their mystery and s&s books, then Warren and Charlton and National Lampoon, then finally the DC mainstream superheroes in early 1974. I spent the rest of the 70s acquiring what I'd missed, and a few issues I didn't get until I got back into fandom in the early 2000s.
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Post by berkley on Jul 26, 2024 22:22:43 GMT -5
My first, and perhaps the most serious in a way, is the one Ive mentioned in passing many times before: getting out of comics three or four years in the early 70s - I can pin down exactly when I started reading and buying again (the spring or early summer of 1975) but stopping was a more gradual tapering off. So I missed a lot of great stuff, including some of what are now my favourite comics. I had a very similar experience with my two-year hiatus. I stopped buying comics in May or June of 1969 and started back in February 1971. At first I continued my Marvel Zombie ways, then branched out to DC's Burroughs books, then their mystery and s&s books, then Warren and Charlton and National Lampoon, then finally the DC mainstream superheroes in early 1974. I spent the rest of the 70s acquiring what I'd missed, and a few issues I didn't get until I got back into fandom in the early 2000s. Yes, much the same here: in some cases it wasn't until the internet came along and I was able to buy things online that I finally completed a few runs. But I was able to get a few less expensive back issues in the mid-1980s when I was living in a place - Halifax, NS - that had two good comic shops; and then in the early 90s when I not only had an excellent comic shop nearby but also had the disposable income to buy them I was able to fill in even more.
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